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Financial Advice for Graduate Students Part 2: Insurance

Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 10:30 AM CST

Abstract

Compensation packages in the US can be confusing for new graduates. This series of three webinars is designed to explain the three main elements of a compensation package: salary, retirement and insurance. In the first talk we discussed income and taxes in the US. I gave a brief overview of the other non-monetary forms of compensation such as paid time off (vacation, sick leave), retirement and insurance. In this, the second, talk we will delve deeper into the various insurance products that will likely be offered – or that you may wish to purchase on your own. These will include medical, vision, dental, disability, and life insurance. In the third talk we will discuss retirement plans offered by US employers, how they work and the pros and cons of each. The goal of the series is to acquaint you with the likely options you will encounter as you transition from university to paid compensation so as to empower you to make the correct choices for you and your family.

Biography

Karen Feigh is an Associate professor at Georgia Tech’s School of Aerospace Engineering. As a faculty member of the Georgia Tech Cognitive Engineering Center, she leads a research and education program focused on the computational cognitive modeling and design of cognitive work support systems and technologies to improve the performance of socio-technical systems with particular emphasis on aerospace systems. She is responsible for undergraduate and graduate level instruction in the areas of flight dynamics, evaluation of human integrated systems, human factors, and cognitive engineering. Dr. Feigh has over nine years of relevant research and design experience in fast-time air traffic simulation, ethnographic studies, airline and fractional ownership operation control centers, synthetic vision systems for helicopters, expert systems for air traffic control towers, and the impact of context on undersea warfighters. Dr. Feigh serves on the National Research Council’s Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB), as the Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Helicopter Society, and as a guest editor for a special addition of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems on Human Automation Interaction.